Executive orders give presidents significant power to act without Congress. Learn how these directives work, their historical ...

With more than three and a half years left in his second term, Donald Trump has already signed more executive orders as the ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the most executive orders beginning in 1937. During his second and third terms, Roosevelt signed 2,023 executive orders.

Although these decrees are nothing new in American government, they must be issued within the scope of a president's ...

The Federal Register tracks all executive orders signed by presidents beginning in 1937. The data does not include former President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first-term executive orders.

Trump claims mantle of FDR’s first 100 days, but differences are stark. Roosevelt’s opening act yielded major new laws, while Trump governs largely by executive order.

President Trump signed more than 120 executive orders in the first 3 months of his second term. Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the most executive orders, with over 3,700 during his 12 years in office.

That figure far exceeds the 99 executive actions Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed into law during his first 100 days in 1933, and the running number may soon overtake the 162 orders that former ...

The previous record was held by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who issued 99 executive orders during his first 100 days in 1933, primarily to combat the Great Depression, according to the ...

The Federal Register tracks all executive orders signed by presidents beginning in 1937. The data does not include former President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first-term executive orders.

The Federal Register tracks all executive orders signed by presidents beginning in 1937. The data does not include former President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first-term executive orders.